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  • A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to ... have allowed astronauts to live in space for periods of weeks or months ...
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  • The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology, however, is often ...
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  • Space-based observatories are telescopes or other instruments located ... #039;s atmosphere, the images obtained by space-based telescopes are free ...
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  • Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... Space exploration has often been used as a proxy competition for geopolitical ...
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  • Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... Among the primary attractions of space tourism are the uniqueness ...
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  • :This article is about NASA's space vehicle. {{Infobox rocket ... NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation ...
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  • of soldiers of the Confederate States of America and a Confederate Memorial. ... *The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial was dedicated on May 20, 1986 ...
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  • use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical ... Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first ...
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  • An example is the suggestion that the space shuttle Challenger exploded ... Washington, DC: Mineralogical Society of America, 1993. ISBN 0939950332 ...
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  • to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space. Glenn received the NASA ... Glenn was the oldest person to fly in space as a crew member of the Discovery ...
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  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... and research institutions, and the Johnson Space Center, where the NASA's ...
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  • war in 1944. The Orbiter vehicles or "space shuttles" do not use ... the USA and the Andes Mountains in South America. Another name for flying ...
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  • The complex contains 580,000 square feet (54,000 m2) of space below ... Louis, the Moon Landing, and the Challenger shuttle crew. ...
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  • would have been the greatest calamity for America, the President is first ... Bush privately, and then publicly, opposed NASA's manned space ...
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  • with his other commitment to lecture in America. This disappointed his father ... Observatory was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999. ...
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  • which were the dominant predators of South America in the Cenozoic period ... is achieved by spacecraft, such as the Space Shuttle and Soyuz, during ...
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  • The Horn of Africa as seen from the NASA Space Shuttle in May 1993. The ... *Compare: Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America ...
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  • Florida's modern history, like much of America's, was one ... North American continent, and the Kennedy Space Center, home to the United ...
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  • In the twenty-first century, commercial space tourism has become feasible. ... (The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices ...
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  • For much of its existence ranking as America's most popular cable ... moments, such as the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986: ...
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